Usually means: Formal dance for high school students.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word prom:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. prom: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prom: Merriam-Webster
  3. PROM, Prom, prom, prom: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. PROM, prom, prom: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prom: Collins English Dictionary
  6. prom: Vocabulary.com
  7. PROM, Prom, prom: Wordnik
  8. prom: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. PROM, Prom, prom: Wiktionary
  10. prom: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. prom: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. prom: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. prom, prom: Dictionary.com
  14. prom: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. prom: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. PROM, Prom (album), Prom (disambiguation), Prom (film), Prom, The Prom (Buffy episode), The Prom (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), The Prom (band), The Prom (film), The Prom (musical): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. prom: Rhymezone
  18. PROM, prom: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. prom: FreeDictionary.org
  20. prom: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Prom: The Word Detective
  22. PROM, prom: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. PROM: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. PROM: CCI Computer
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  6. PROM: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PROM (medical), PROM: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PROM: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. P.R.O.M: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (British) A promenade concert.
noun:  (British, abbreviation) A promenade.
noun:  (US) A formal ball held at a high school or college on special occasions; e.g,. near the end of the academic year.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (electronics) Acronym of programmable read-only memory: A PROM chip can be programmed one or more times (depending on the type) and generally cannot be re-programmed without special equipment (if at all). Once programmed and installed in a device, it functions as a read-only chip (as if it had been hard-wired to function that way.) [(electronics) A type of read-only memory which can be written to once (write once, read many memory/WORM), and thereafter becomes fixed in value.]
noun:  (medicine) Initialism of prelabor rupture of membranes.
noun:  Initialism of passive range of motion.
noun:  Alternative form of Prome (“the city of Pyay”) [Former name of Pyay, Myanmar.]

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